Aaron McKie Steps Down as Men’s Basketball Coach @ Temple…

[huskymedic]

… will serve as Special Advisor for Athletics




“A national search for the next Temple University men's basketball coach will commence immediately.”

 

[WrenchFan69]

They should go for Fran Dunphy

 

[ucp990411]

Why?

 

[shizzle787]

Why?

They stink.

 

[Fishy]

He stepped down because getting fired sounded worse.

Temple needs to find $10M or whatever it costs to get out of the American and just go back to the Atlantic 10.

 

[BGesus4]

Cooley would be a good fit

 

[amishboy]

Cooley would be a good fit

Why leave a strong program in the BE for a rebuild in the American (or even the A-10)?

 

[amishboy]

They should go for Fran Dunphy

Since he coached at Temple for 14 years before moving to LaSalle, his alma mater, it’s hard to imagine he’d be interested. Not to mention he’s 74.

Or were you being sarcastic?

 

[tzznandrew]

Sad. I feel bad when these alumni love the program and don't succeed.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Everytime a shizz college job opens up, I think, "That's the perfect job for KO."....

 

[gsmooth]

Sad. I feel bad when these alumni love the program and don't succeed.

me too. Patrick Ewing is exhibit #1.

 

[NowInStorrs]

I'd hate to see him go but would Kimani make sense here?

 

[gtcam]

Everytime a shizz college job opens up, I think, "That's the perfect job for KO."....

DB

 

[Storrs South]

I'd hate to see him go but would Kimani make sense here?

He already had to do 2 years in the AAC and that conference is only getting worse next season.

The travel schedule was already bad and going to be horrendous going forward.

I'm not sure Temple can pay the money necessary to take what i consider not that good of a job anymore in the 9th best conference.

Think Kimani gets 800k today and McKie was getting like 1.1M. I doubt Temple has the money (guessing 1.5) to make it worth the trouble and that is a hard job given it's in a Frankenstein conference that's now a 1 or at best 2 bid league.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

They should go for Fran Dunphy

No, Fran needs to do a brief interim gig at Nova if Neptune doesn't work out, then close his career at St Joe's to complete the Big 5 circuit.

 

[JohnFSilver]

He stepped down because getting fired sounded worse.

Temple needs to find $10M or whatever it costs to get out of the American and just go back to the Atlantic 10.

They should, and go Indy like UConn .

 

[AdamaNation]

me too. Patrick Ewing is exhibit #1.

Too bad it Never works out, at least for a little while.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Is there much pressure on Temple to drop football? Historically unsuccessful program that will never have an on-campus stadium, has no business renting the Eagles field, Philly being a "pro sports" town, clearly hurting their basketball program by trying to force it up in the AAC. The parallels to the UConn situation are clear to see. At some point schools are going to start to drop football if they're left out of the money party, I could see Temple being (one of the) first

 

[JohnFSilver]

Is there much pressure on Temple to drop football? Historically unsuccessful program that will never have an on-campus stadium, has no business renting the Eagles field, Philly being a "pro sports" town, clearly hurting their basketball program by trying to force it up in the AAC. The parallels to the UConn situation are clear to see. At some point schools are going to start to drop football if they're left out of the money party, I could see Temple being (one of the) first

There is no pressure on temple to drop football.

That is a uniquely Connecticut trait that absolutely makes no sense financially .

 

[gtcam]

It’s a shame because AM bleeds Temple.
I guess some will start to understand the difference between recruiting in the AAC vs NBE
At least the Temple AD did it with a sense of class and decorum.